Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers
Born: Sep 10, 1940 in Los Angeles, CA
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Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Instrumental Pop, Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Pop
Biography: Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and '80s, Roy Ayers' reputation s now that of one of the prophets of acid jazz, a man decades ahead of his time. A tune like 1972's "Move to Groove" by the Roy Ayers Ubiquity has a crackling ...Read full biography
He's Coming
Released: 1971
Label: Verve
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He's Coming captures Roy Ayers at the absolute top of his game, masterminding jazz-funk grooves as taut as a tightrope. Profoundly inspired by the Broadway musical Jesus Christ Superstar (and including ...Read full review
Change Up the Groove
Released: 1974
Label: Verve
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Its misleading title notwithstanding, Change Up the Groove does little to alter the inimitable jazz-funk aesthetic Roy Ayers perfected on earlier LPs like He's Coming and Virgo Red. The record simply offers ...Read full review
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